Babette Werner

Babette Werner is an art and visual historian with a focus on interdisciplinary approaches at the intersection of art, ecology and technology, dealing with time, space and transformation. She researches (in-)visible relations of visual interpretations of natural phenomena and social discourses and seeks to contribute to a genealogy of an ecological aesthetic. She works as researcher and curator and has developed and implemented interdisciplinary publication projects and exhibitions in the field of visual and performing arts, including BMW Guggenheim Lab for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Nur Skulptur! at Kunsthalle Mannheim, Schaustelle for Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne, and, among others, Otto Piene. More Sky at Nationalgalerie — Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. She is currently based at Matters of Activity. Image Space Material, Cluster of Excellence within Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In her practice-based thesis she analyses analogue and digital (re-)stagings of process-based and inter-media art from the late 1950s until today and their potential for sustainable archival and curatorial practices.